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Collected here are the cops and robbers from our collective TV memory. So Peter Falk as the great 'Columbo' sits next to Kiefer Sutherland's Jack Bauer in '24'. 'Kojak' shares shelf space with 'Cracker' and 'MacGyver' meets 'Reilly: Ace of Spies'.

Foyle's War: Series 1 (2002)

8.4/10
Director: Jeremy Silberston
Starring: Charles Dance, Edward Fox, Robert Hardy, Michael Kitchen, Anthony Howell, Julian...

Directed by Jeremy Silberston, this provocative series is a fusion of historical drama and mystery, focusing on the effects of World War II on the vil... Read more

Foyle's War: Series 3 (2004)

8.4/10
Director: Gavin Millar, Jeremy Silberston
Starring: Michael Kitchen, Anthony Howell, Julian Ovenden, Honeysuckle Weeks

In early 1941, Foyle is again pursuing a position that will contribute more to the war effort, but he is distracted by a local murder in 'The French D... Read more

Wallander (2008)

8/10
Director: Philip Martin, Niall MacCormick
Starring: Kenneth Branagh, Jeany Spark, Richard McCabe, Sarah Smart, Tom Beard, Tom Hiddle...

Kenneth Branagh plays Swedish detective Kurt Wallander in three feature-length detective dramas based on the best-selling books by Henning Mankell. 'S... Read more

The Wire: Season 1 (2002)

9.3/10
Director: Agnieszka Holland, Daniel Attias, Ernest Dickerson, Peter Medak, Brad Anderson, Tim Van Patten
Starring: Dominic West, Idris Elba, Wood Harris

From Emmy-winning David Simon, this unvarnished, highly realistic HBO series follows a single sprawling drug and murder investigation in Baltimore. To... Read more

Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy (1979)

8.6/10
Director: John Irving
Starring: Alec Guinness, Ian Richardson, Bernard Hepton, Joss Ackland

In this award-winning adaptation of John le Carre's novel, Sir Alec Guinness stars as spymaster George Smiley, a retired agent for the British Secret... Read more

The Bridge: Series 1 (2011)

8.6/10
Starring: Kim Bodnia, Sofia Helin

A woman's body is dumped in the middle of the Oresund Bridge - right on the border between Sweden and Denmark. What at first looks like one murder, tu... Read more

Foyle's War: Series 2 (2003)

8.4/10
Director: Giles Foster, Jeremy Silberston
Starring: Michael Kitchen, Anthony Howell, Julian Ovenden, Honeysuckle Weeks

As war rages over Europe Detective Chief Superintendent Christopher Foyle (Michael Kitchen), is battling crime on the homefront. All four episodes fr... Read more

Foyle's War: Series 6 (2008)

8.4/10
Starring: Anthony Howell, Honeysuckle Weeks, Edward Fox, Robert Hardy, David Horovitch

This excellent series draws to a close with the sixth season (or does it? - the producers of the show are apparently fighting tooth and nail to revers... Read more

The Bridge: Series 2 (2013)

7.6/10
Starring: Kim Bodnia, Sofia Helin

An old tanker veers off course, heading straight for the Øresund Bridge, the scene of the now-infamous crime that first united detectives Saga Norén (... Read more

Breaking Bad: Season 1 (2008)

9.5/10
Starring: Anna Gunn, Dean Norris, Bryan Cranston, Betsy Brandt, RJ Mitte, Aaron Paul

Emmy Award winner Bryan Cranston stars as Walter White, a down-on-his-luck chemistry teacher struggling to make ends meet for his wife (Anna Gunn) and... Read more